Elevator Episodes in Seven Genres

The very first review of my story has been posted at Tangent Online and the reviewer did have some nice things to say about my story. :)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Nice review. She spelled your last name wrong. :(

-patchmulberry
------------------
bleaklight.com
July 17, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Anonymous said…
How long does it take you to write a short story?


-Patchmulberry
-----------------
bleaklight.com
July 18, 2007 at 3:52 PM
Ahmed A. Khan said…
Hi, Patch. Thanks for your first comment. This is not the first time my last name has been spelled wrong. :)

About your question: different stories take different lengths of time - and the length of time is not always proportional to the length of the story. For instance, I wrote the "Elevator Episodes" story in about 30 minutes. On the other hand, "Meaning of Life and Other Cliches", published in Anotherealm in 2005 and later went on to win the Higney Award at Anotherealm and garnered an honorable mention in the Parallax Awards, took about 10 years to be written.
July 18, 2007 at 9:08 PM
Anonymous said…
Nice job on winning an award! :D


-Patchmulberry
-----------------
bleaklight.com
July 19, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Anonymous said…
I just ordered your issue from Interzone.

Write longer stories! :D

Anyhoo, I'll keep checking in to see where you're getting published and try to buy the issues to show support for the up-and-comers.

-Patchmulberry
--------------
bleaklight.com
August 4, 2007 at 8:13 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Links to My Writing

Updated April 21, 2025 Want to join me on facebook? Here is the link:  https://www.facebook.com/ahmedkhanwrites/ Want to provide me feedback on any of stories or articles? Email me at khan.ahmeda@gmail.com. ARTICLES Gaia and the Art of Fighting Marine Oil Pollution - in "Ships and Soil" . Non-verbal Communication: Fact and Fiction  -  "Strange Horizon" (26 Feb. 2001 Two Solitudes: An Interview With James Alan Gardner - in "Absolute Write" (Aug. 2005) Philosophy of Monotheism - published in "Ambitions" . Lateral Thinking for Writers  -  "Visions" (2006) Smell of Time - in "Suddenly Lost in Words" (Oct. 2012) The Future of Futuristic Fiction  -  in "New Myths" (2016) Islamic Speculative Fiction: Past, Present and Future  -  in "Samjoko" (April, 2025) SHORT STORIES SCIENCE FICTION The Presonic Man - published in "Anotherealm", reprinted in "Antipodean", "GateW...
Read more

Writerly Work

Found some new genre and mainstream markets through Duotrope (http://www.duotrope.com) and submitted 8 stories (7 reprints and 1 original) to 8 venues - the breakdown of the stories being: 1 SF, 2 fantasies, 2 mysteries and 3 mainstream.
Read more

On the Writing Front...

...the last couple of weeks have been good. - Completed and submitted 2 new stories. - Complied with revision request for 1 story. - Recirculated 4 of my stories. And with that, I have all my unpublished stories (12, to be exact) in circulation.
Read more